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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 12, 1968
Page
1
A Manitoba extension note discusses damp grain quantities across Western Canada and the strain on drying facilities. It warns that most driers must run through winter, outlines cost and financing barriers, and cautions against drying grain at too high a temperature to avoid losses.
The motor vehicle branch will mail about 420 000 renewal forms to Manitoba vehicle owners from 1968. Registrants must renew by February 28 to receive new 1969 validation strips and plates. Centennial plates can be used on front of vehicles in 1969 if chosen. otherwise regular plates apply.
Manitoba reports a ten month period with 141 fatal crashes causing 179 deaths, up from 133 crashes and 162 deaths a year earlier. Total Manitoba crashes reach 15 691, with injuries rise of 4.3 percent and 7 056 people hurt. In Greater Winnipeg, non fatal and fatal crashes fall. October sees 24 fatal crashes and 29 deaths, versus 26 and 31 a year prior.
Glenboro Elementary was broken into on Friday night December 6. Entry came via a window on the east side and the office door was forced. More than half the cash belonged to the Senior Hockey Club. rest covered curling fees, drink money and student council funds. Other area schools also burglarized that night.
Businesses are reminded to arrange Christmas greetings for the Gazette Christmas edition. Work begins December 12 and the paper mails on Thursday, December 19.
Manitoba Finance Minister Gurney Evans says the province will balance the 1969 70 budget without tax increases. Ottawa cuts and projected federal withdrawals force tighter spending scrutiny, with estimates already under austere review and measures justified by essential need and priority.
Don Barr and his rink Henry Thornborough Earl Malyon and Gerald Rutherford won the top prize electric brooms at the Minot Bonspiel last weekend. Stan Oleson and Ivan Ellett Ray Taft Len Thornborough earned third prize in the second event amid strong competition. A rumor notes a red haired skip canceled a ladies Curling Club membership after the Minot trip.
Residents decorate homes and businesses with colored lights garlands wreaths and figures to beautify the town. No lighting contest this year inviting everyone to drive about and enjoy the sights, with a suggestion to give senior neighbors a holiday tour.
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